@charles: "If I send information on a CD to someone in the USA is it treated as a
letter or as an item needing a customs label ? "
    @xjahn: "Charles Ellson <email_address> wrote in
news:<email_address>: 
<quote>
It's treated as a letter.
}:-)       Christopher Jahn
{:-(       <url>
I salivate at the sight of mittens. "
    @everyday: "<quote>
Why not ask your local post office? They will be the best source, 
knowing the weight of the package is helpful, if it is below a certain 
weight there is no need for any custom form."
    @charles: "On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:47:37 -0700, Gerry <email_address>
wrote:
<quote>
Wrong end of the journey. The trouble with sending stuff
internationally (if any) is usually at the receiving end and it isn't
reasonable to expect the PO in one country to know all restrictions in
another country when things can change from day to day. The
information on a customs label is generally for use by the receiving
country's Customs.
Along with your reply and Christopher Jahn's (and a look at what I
could find on the US Customs and Post Office sites) it looks like any
correspondence that can be sent letter post in CD form in an
average/C5 envelope is regarded as just a different kind of "writing
paper" rather than "goods". AFAICT from the US Customs site CDs aren't
shown at all in their list of dutiable items but their cases are.
Thanks anyway."
    @charles: "On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 08:11:22 -0700 (PDT), Manaia Alofa
<quote>
I'm sorry to disappoint you but US law applies to the US. Mail items
sent from other countries might be unrestricted in the sender's
country but that doesn't mean the receiving country hasn't got strange
rules and regulations (such as e.g. classing some software as
"munitions") which a sender could fall foul of so I don't see what is
wrong with asking the question. In the case of a CD with family
photographs the basic query is whether they are regarded as a
substitute for paper media or as "goods" and consequently if the
latter then are they potentially dutiable (thus involving specific
labelling, as is usual when I receive software CDs from the US); the
more useful information from others seems to confirm the former
applies in this case."
    @SGBNOSPAM: "<quote>
Gerry's right.  Your local post office would be the place to ask
because they should know the rules of what can and can't be sent into
any country.  It's their job to know all the restrictions in other
countries.
A CD I sent to a friend in Canada (wrong side of the border, I know)
and which contained images of family papers did need a customs form
but that may have been because I sent it in a proper CD mailing box.
<url>"
    @graham: "We send data CDs all over the world regularly. I know ours are 
commercial but, as regards customs declarations, it doesn't matter.
The information you need is on the Royal Mail web site at 
<url> 
As it says there - "All postal items may be examined by Customs, but 
normally letters, postcards and packets containing only documents or 
similar forms of correspondence are excluded."
No need for concern though. For a CD containing information which has 
little (if any) commercial value, just fill in a CN22 form as shown on 
the RM web site. Self-adhesive CN22 forms are available free from post 
offices.
Don't forget to send your package as a "Small Packet" - it's cheaper.
Graham"
    @colinwattersNOSPAM: ""Charani" <SGBNOSPAM@ mail2genes.invalid> wrote in message 
news:4846454f$0$26074$<email_address>
<quote>
They should do but the staff in the nearest main post office to me (not a 
small local post office) don't even understand the rules for post within the 
UK. They think anything that goes through the little slot in their board can 
go standard letter which isn't the case as I found out the hardway. "
    @charles: "On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:18:02 -0700 (PDT), geothermal
<quote>
Although, having now found :-
<url>
if the CD is in a sleeve rather than a case then with a maximum
thickness of 5mm the posted item is treated as a letter (as long as
other dimensions are not exceeded) and according to:-
<url>
"You will need complete and attach a customs declaration to all
packages being sent to destinations outside the European Union,
including "printed papers" but excluding letters and postcards.""
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